Re: search engines (hijacked from rapidly proliferating sess files )
On Sat, 2014-05-24 at 14:50 -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote:
> On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 09:59:40PM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> > Joel Rees writes:
> > > The question of how evil google is/was/is becoming aside...
> >
> > Google search works just fine with all ads, cookies, scripts, and
> > trackers blocked.
>
> Which is essentially exactly what startpage.com gives you.
> Or, really, it gives Google results without the search bubble from tracking.
> Google gives me what it thinks I want to see, based on prior activity,
> all its tracking of me, its knowledge of my location, political
> affiliations, activities, etc. so the results are not "objective".
> Startpage.com (owned and run by ixquick.com which I also use),
> gives the objective, unfiltered google results, no tracking, no
> manipulation.
> startpage and ixquick are the search engines I use most, but I also do
> use duckduckgo for some things (easy for unit conversions, timezone
> conversions, and stuff).
+1 for StartPage. I'm a StartPage user, I don't use Google anymore, but
to be fair, Google shows suggestions while you're typing, so assumed you
misspell or you don't remember some terms, Google is easier to use than
StartPage, IOW because of this feature you might get better results when
using Google.
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